A study following Ontario students between 2004 and 2012 can help policymakers ensure all students get the supports they need when they need them.
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Early childhood education isn’t about warehousing children so adults can go to work. There is an ethical imperative to support a paradigm shift in how our society values educating young children.
It’s counterproductive to push your child to read a whole chapter book independently if they are not ready. You might turn them off reading altogether. Here’s what to do instead.
A new study by early childhood researchers looks at four important features of a centre’s physical environment.
People, policies, practice and place all matter in publicly funded, school-based children’s early learning programs.
Given the clear importance of language skills for lifelong outcomes, it is critical to set children up early for language success.
Parents and caregivers are vital partners in education, and together, educators and families can ease back-to-school jitters and help make this an exciting and positive transition for children.
Canada has much to learn from other countries about better ways of providing learning and care for children.
Where new early learning and child-care programs are located, how they are designed, built and resourced, and what they teach can either add to the problem of climate change or help mitigate it.
The lack of a fully interactive environment in kindergarten due to pandemic school closures may negatively impact some children’s learning in later grades.
Stable child care can protect kids in the face of major life stressors — so should subsidy policies.
The system has several elements and many problems. Making it fit for purpose will take a lot of work and even more resources than those that have just been announced.
Ontario’s flat fee for child care should be replaced by an income-tested fee reflecting family incomes.
This week’s announcements will add to the need to train more early childhood workers and to ensure they are more diverse in a way that better reflects our multicultural society.
Dads and caregivers play important roles in supporting the development of loving relationships.
A study of students across Canada between 2004 and 2015 provides an estimate of anxiety symptoms in kindergarteners, and can serve as a baseline for comparing children’s anxiety after COVID-19.
Kindergarten educators who taught from home during COVID-19 and who were primarily responsible for their own children self-reported poorer mental health than those without these responsibilities.
Researchers and educators with the Climate Action Childhood network are generating responses to climate change alongside young children.
Staff recruitment and retention challenges aren’t seen in public child-care centres, where educators are paid substantially more, are unionized and have professional development opportunities.
Among provinces, Ontario is the least generous supporter of its childhood educator workforce. Parents pay the price in available child-care spaces if a staffing recruitment crisis does not improve.
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Associate Professor, Flinders University
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Kerry McCuaig is a Friend of The Conversation.
Fellow in Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Professor of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto
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Program Head of Early Childhood Studies, University of Guelph-Humber
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Professor and Head of School, School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Assistant Program Head of Early Childhood Studies, University of Guelph-Humber
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Assistant researcher, Perlman Lab, Ontario Institute for the Studies of Education, University of Toronto
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development at Ontario Institute for the Study of Education (OISE) and Senior Policy Fellow at the Atkinson Centre, University of Toronto
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland
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Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Former Education Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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RBC Chair and Professor, Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
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Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University
